Fastening device



July 28, 1931. T. PHILLIPS FASTENING DEVICE Filed May 51, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet l Z/- i K #3 2/ 35; phi/M4 alforize July 2s, .931.

T. PHILLIPS I FASTENING DEVICE Filed May 31, 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet IJJVELT/J 01 flaw/45 8014 95 0266-02 ne y Patented July 28, 1931 UNITED STATES THOMAS PHILLIPS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA FASTENING DEVICE Application filed May 31, 1929. Serial No. 367,454;

This invention relates to improvements in garage door opening devices.

The principal object of the invention is to provide means whereby the garage doors may be opened from a point remote from the door, either from outside or from the inside of the garage.

Another object is to provide means Whereby either door may be independently opened or closed.

Another object is to provide means which may be attached to any standard garage door without altering its construction.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a garage having my invention applied thereto,

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary detail view showing the manner in which the catch operates, taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 3,

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail fragmentary view of the catch,

Figure at is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 1- 12 of Figure 3, I

Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the manner in which the garage doors swing open, and

Figure 6 is an enlarged detail view of the catch mechanism.

It often happens that when driving up to a garage, the operator is, desirous of opening the doors of the garage without alighting from the vehicle. At the present time it is necessary that he alight, open the doors, again enter the vehicle and drive in.

To overcome this annoyance, I have devised means whereby the garage doors may be opened from a point a considerable distance away, and while the operator is seated in the vehicle.

In the accompanying drawings wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates a garage as a whole having the customary swinging doors 6 and 7.

Springs 8 and 9 tend to swing the doors to open position as shown in full lines of Fig ure 5.

It will be apparent that my device serves to keep the doors closed and consists essentially of a vertically slidable bar 11 having an elevating means such as a chain 12 which passes over a pulley 13 and extends to any convenient point within. the garage.

A connection is made atlt so that a cable 16 may be led over a pulley 17 carried upon the upper portion of the garage to a designated point outside of the garage. From-this it will be apparent that the pulling of either the rope 16 or the chain 12 will cause the bar 11 to move upwardly against the force of gravity. In order that the doors may be independentlyactuated, I have pivoted to each end of the bar 11, sliding blocks as shown at 18 and 19. These blocks are carried in slideways 21 and 22, respectively, and when in their lower position lie at a point below the normal extended position of sliding bolts 23 and 24:.

The result of this construction is that when a person pulls upon the cable 16, the bar 11 will be elevated together with the sliding blocks 18 and 19. As soon as they are moved out of the path of the bolts 23 and 24, the springs 8 and 9 will function to move the doors to full open position. As soonas the motor vehicle has moved into the garage, the doors 6 and 7 may be closed and due to the pivotal arrangement, assuming that the door 6 is closed, first the action of the bolt 24 passing under the block 19 will lift the block which is permitted through the pivotal connection with the bar 11. When the door 7 is closed, thebolt 23 will engage the block 18 and lift it. Thus it is apparent that either door may be independently opened or closed, or both doors may be opened from a distant point.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes relative to the shape, size, material and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a garage door fastener, the combination With a garage door, of a bar slidably carried above said door, a sliding block pivoted to said bar, a latch carried by said door and adapted to pass beneath saidbar and means for elevating said bar from a remote point.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a pair of garagedoors, each of said doors having a spring bolt at its upper extremity, a sliding block adapted to be engaged by each of said bolts, a pivoted bar extending between said'blocks and means for" elevating saidbar from'a remote point.

3. In a fastening device for use with doors, a block vertically sl-idably' positioned above each of said doors, spring catches carried upon the upper extremity of said doors and adapted to engage said blocks, abar extending-between said blocks and pivoted thereto,

a pulley positione'd abovesaid-bar, a chain extending-from said pulley to said bar, and

remote means connectedfto said chain for actuating the same for the purpose specified; V In'testiniony vvhereof I affiX-my signature. THOMAS'PHILLIPS. 

